'Learning from playing in Sri Lanka, Pakistan will help us in India': Pat Cummins

[MenInG]

SYDNEY: Australian Test captain Pat Cummins says his team has learnt "a heap" during the tours of Pakistan and Sri Lanka and getting a taste of sub-continent conditions should help his relatively inexperienced players in next year's marquee series in India.

After notching a comprehensive 10-wicket win in the series opener, Australia lost by an innings and 39 runs in the second Test as Sri Lanka drew the series 1-1 on Monday and Cummins feels the defeat was a "reality check."

Before Sri Lanka, Australia had toured Pakistan, beating the hosts 2-0 in the three-match Test series in March.

"I think half our batting lineup and half our bowling lineup hasn't played a lot over here in the subcontinent. So the experience on these two vastly different wickets, I think we got a lot of lessons out of it to take to India next year," Cummins was quoted as saying by 'Sydney Morning Herland.'

"We turned up knowing it's a tough place to win series and games over here, So to come away with a series draw, the same team that won last week, we grinded it out in Pakistan to come through with a series win."

"It might be a reality check that it's tough playing away from home in different conditions to what we've grown up playing in. And [it] makes for more learning than after a win," he added.

Australia are scheduled to tour India next year where they will play four Tests, as part of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in February-March.

"In Australia most likely you only play one spinner, so in the background, you're trying to prepare a couple of other guys so they get the chance over in India. The last two tours we've learned a heap, we've come a long way in how we've played."

"[We'll] try to park that to one side and try to re-remember it in six months."

Australia were guilty of wasting their three reviews inside 80 overs, which cost them as they couldn't challenge a few 'not out' decisions.

"We're always trying to get better at that. In the past, we've burned reviews that we've looked back and thought they weren't a good chance, but especially the two yesterday we were really confident on both."

"So [we are trying to] perfect and improve our systems. Unfortunately over here there's so many balls near edges and pads, it feels like there's more chances to use them."

"We'll review this series, try to put away lots of notes and ideas, then bank that, put that to one side and work towards the home summer," he said.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/sp...tan-will-help-us-in-indiacummins-2475847.html

 

[MenInG]

In India, Australia will also be hit by a quality fast-bowling attack so spin isnt the only issue

 

[Marooned]

In India, Australia will also be hit by a quality fast-bowling attack so spin isnt the only issue

Rest assured it will be entirely a spin game. India can produce fair wickets like they did in 1st test vs NZ, but they won't risk it vs Australia pace attack.

 

[shah_1]

They will lose badly in India

I hope it is a 4-0

 

[MP2011]

Rest assured it will be entirely a spin game. India can produce fair wickets like they did in 1st test vs NZ, but they won't risk it vs Australia pace attack.

The same Australian attack got a test scheduled at Dharamshala of all the places during their last Indian tour. What did they achieve on that track?

And what sort of wickets did the same attack get when India defeated them in 2 consecutive series in their own den? Were they spinning wickets?

Its a fallacy that its just the Indian spinners who fashion our wins at home. Our pace attack is very potent too. Australians will be committing a grave mistake if they ignore threat posed by Bumrah & Co.

 

[Sam99]

Australia has no chance in india. At best they can draw the test match. They are decent side but lack that killer instinct to go on to win match and take series as we saw in ashes 2019, BGT, Current SL series. With Smith's decline and warner, head batting like tailender & lyon, cummins, starc bowling being so ineffective in these conditions they are gonna struggle against quality indian lineup. Their best chance to win the test match would be india giving rank turner to them and indian batsman getting out to likes of travis head or agar. On typical indian wicket they are just not good enough side.

 

[gazza619]

I think we are under estimating the Aussies.

This is the new relatively humble Aussie team which is led by the humble Cummins.

I would back the aussie team to the draw the test series with India.

 

[sweep_shot]

The fact India have declined in Test gives Australia a great chance to win a Test series in India.

I think Aussies can win the series in India this time around.

 

[Savak]

Indians know how to make the most of their pitches and their spinners. They have the perfect formula for success at home against the Western countries i.e. Australia, England, New Zealand i.e. great new ball bowling by the pacers, ruthless spin by the spinners and ruthless reverse swing by the pacers.

 

[Mesozoic]

Australia have done much better than they were expected to on these two tours. Two wins, Two draws and one loss in 5 games is a pretty good return. I expect them to compete well in atleast 2 out of the 4 games in India but i doubt they can win or draw the series. India has way too much depth in quality at home in both the departments. We pretty much play with 9 batters and 5 out and out match winning bowlers for these conditions.

 

[JaDed]

Indians know how to make the most of their pitches and their spinners. They have the perfect formula for success at home against the Western countries i.e. Australia, England, New Zealand i.e. great new ball bowling by the pacers, ruthless spin by the spinners and ruthless reverse swing by the pacers.

Even against Lanka we are good ,they still don’t have a test match win in India.

 

[Savak]

Even against Lanka we are good ,they still don’t have a test match win in India.

Sri Lanka has been playing minnow level cricket for a while now especially since the retirement of Murlitharan, Vaas and then Jaywardene, Sangakarra.

 

[JaDed]

Sri Lanka has been playing minnow level cricket for a while now especially since the retirement of Murlitharan, Vaas and then Jaywardene, Sangakarra.

Even when they were part of the team they haven’t done much in India.

 

[James]

Feels to me that Australia are a genuinely good Test team at the moment and will be competitive in this series. They will surely win one Test at the very least. But India are close to impregnable at home in Test cricket as we know. They rarely even drop a Test let alone a series. 2-1 India.

 

[daytrader]

Triple threat: O'Keefe calls for Aussie shake-up in India
Steve O'Keefe, who bowled Australia to victory in Pune in 2017, has urged selectors to pick three spinners in the XI for their Test tour of India next year

The man responsible for one of India's only two Test defeats at home in the past decade says leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson deserves another chance on Australia's Indian tour next year.

But Steve O'Keefe, who famously spun Australia to victory in Pune in 2017, says finger spin will be the main weapon if the Aussies are to secure a breakthrough series win on Indian soil, urging selectors to pick Ashton Agar and bat him at No.7 as part of a three-man spin attack.

Having secured a famous series win in Pakistan and then squared their two-match campaign in Sri Lanka, Australia's Asian odyssey will face its toughest test early next year with a four-Test tour of India.

Australia have enjoyed just one series triumph on Indian soil in the past 50 years and India's recent home record of just two defeats in their 34 matches over the past 10 years makes it the toughest challenge in world cricket.

The role Swepson will play on the tour will undoubtedly be a talking point in the coming months. Having taken just two wickets in his debut series on flat pitches in Pakistan, leading to speculation he may be replaced by Agar in Sri Lanka, the Queenslander took eight wickets on turning pitches in Galle after Agar suffered an untimely injury.

India's recent success at home has been built on the finger spin of Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel, and O'Keefe believes Australia need to follow that blueprint.

But he says Swepson has a role to play as well.

"They've given him four Tests now, it's hard to judge a player on that amount of cricket.," O'Keefe told cricket.com.au.

"In India, I am a believer that finger spin is such a weapon because … everyone thinks you bowl finger spin so it must be easy, (but) it can still be really hard to get that control. And that asset, you look at the way that the Sri Lankan spinners bowled to us, they were just relentless in regard to their lines and their lengths.

"In regard to Swepson, I'd still continue to stick with him. He's a young fellow who's been thrust the ball in some difficult circumstances against really good players of spin and I think (in Sri Lanka) he held his own."

On Tuesday, Agar reflected on the side injury that ruled him out of the Sri Lanka Tests, which helped Swepson hold his spot in the XI.

Selectors called up left-arm finger spinners Jon Holland and Matt Kuhnemann as cover once Agar went down, but they ultimately stuck with Swepson to support Nathan Lyon for the two-Test series.

Agar, who played the most recent of his four Tests in 2017, said he has tried to move on quickly from the knowledge his injury may have cost him another chance at Test level.

"It was tough watching that, knowing there was a chance to play Test cricket again and then getting injured," he told SEN.

"The timing is never good, but it was especially bad at that time.

"(But) you've just got to work on getting your body right to go for the next tour. Because if you get stuck in the headspace of, 'I wish I was there, this was my chance to play', it's really negative. You're just always looking backwards, and you'll end up hating it."

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/aus...hell-swepson-ashton-agar-kuhnemann/2022-07-19

 

[RedwoodOriginal]

Well India won't be stupid enough to dish out the garbage tracks that Pakistan did. India is going to dish out rank turners where Axar Patel is going to run over Australia and Bumrah will find a way to run riot too. I will be very surprised if most of the wickets aren't prepared to play to India's spin-bowling strengths.